Fruit-picker



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' Fruit Picker.

Patented May 24, I88I.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. FERRIS, OF ELMORE, OHIO.

FRUIT-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,948, dated May 24, 1881.

' Application filed April 6, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. FERRIS, of Elmore, in the county of Ottawa and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Pickers; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the head of my improved fruit-picker.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters of reference.

This invention relates to fruit-pickers; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A represents the head of my improved fruit-picker, which is formed of a single piece of wire bent as shown, so as to form a series of parallel loops or bends, B, facing in opposite directions. The wire having been thus bent its ends are brought together, thus forming the bent wire into a hoop or band, the ends of which are turned in a downward direction, so as to form legs 0 O.

D is a stem or handle, of suitable length, and provided at its upper end with a socket, E, for the reception of the legs 0 G, by means of which the head of the picker is thus secured to the handle, while at thesame time the hoop-shape of the head is in this manner retained.

F is a conducting tube, made of canvas, cloth, or any other suitable material, the upper end of which is secured, by stitching or otherwise, to the rear ends of the bends or loops of the head, thus forming, as it were, a

downward extension of the ring or hoop which constitutes the head, as aforesaid. The said conducting-tube is provided with rings G, attached to its outside and adjusted upon the stem or handle, to which it is thus secured without any danger of being entangled with the boughs or branches of the trees among which the device is used.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

The front side of the hoop or head of the picker presents a series of loops, between any two of which the stem of the fruit may be readily adjusted, thus enabling the fruit to be readily removed, when it will drop through the cond noting-tube into any sui tably-arran ged basket or other receptacle.

The smooth curved front edges of the head or hoop cannot in any way injure or bruise the fruit, and the device is eminently simple, inexpensive, and convenient.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a fruit-picker, the herein-described head A, formed of a single piece of wire bent so as to form a series of parallel loops, and legs 0 O at right angles to the loops, which ends are brought together so as to form the wire into a hoop, and socketed in a suitable handle, as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a fruit-picker, the combination, with the head A, consisting of a single piece of wire bent so as to form a series of parallel or double loops, of the flexible tube F, secured to the rear ends of said loops, as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDRE? JAMES FERRIS.

Witnesses:

t J OHN O. HASSELKUS,

WILLIAM CALDWELL. 

